2017-04 DCHS News Spring
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What’s happening in… DEEP COVE HERITAGE SOCIETY Spring 2017 Calendar • Mount Seymour History Weekend — Friday & Saturday April 8 & 9 • Theatre Night May 10 (see pg 7) • Indian Arm Boat Cruise — August 15 Full calendar listings on our website. Spring Hours Open Tuesdays & Thursdays 10am to 4pm; Saturdays 1pm to 4pm Deep Cove Heritage Society is looking for volunteers to help keep our office open for visitors to the area. If you are interested in helping, please call 604-929-5744. Postcard DCHS #0590, date unknown, courtesy Robert Stirrat. Contents Page 1 Mount Seymour History Page 2 President’s message Historical Mount Seymour Page 3 Farewell to Pat Morrice Page 7 Announcements by Wendy Bullen Stephenson Page 8 Get involved! & Books of area Deep Cove has a special relationship with many subsistence resources, such as Mount Seymour because this land materials from which to make Website News formation arises directly from the shores medicines, clothing, dugouts, tools, and of the Cove, as well as from the west side other implements. We are pleased to report that our website is now updated more regularly. of Indian Arm, and it slopes more gently Knowing the area well as experienced We will be adding documents we have upward from the northeast shores of climbers and mountaineers, First acquired, check under News online Burrard Inlet. Residents of the Cove Nations individuals offered their The archived newsletters are under the Resources tab at the top of the page. sometimes blame the mountain for services as guides in the late 1800s when gathering and then dumping rain on the Email your photos and stories to us to: non-aboriginals arrived and wanted to [email protected] Cove but, at least since the 1950s, have hunt mountain goats, elk, and other Please check for office hours before definitely been grateful to have skiing and game on the mountain. dropping by. We depend on the generosity other snow-based and outdoor activities of our volunteers who can not always offer It was not until August of 1908 that structured hours. so close at hand. members of the BC Mountaineering With the summit being 1,449 m (4,754 ft.) Club recorded the first ascent to the above sea level, this mountain served as a summit of Mount Seymour by a non- Contact us hunting territory for the Squamish and indigenous group. It was on this • 4360 Gallant Avenue, Tsleil-Waututh First Nations for occasion that the three peaks forming North Vancouver, BC V7G 1L2 • Telephone 604-929-5744 thousands of years. Besides offering a the main ridge of the mountain were source of food, the mountain also • Or send us an e-mail to: named. This came about as a result of a [email protected] provided these indigenous people with remark made by Frank Harold Smith, • Website: www.DeepCoveHeritage.com Cont’d page 2... # President’s Message Executive 2017 Remembering Pat Morrice Please allow me to got lots to learn and please feel free to President Alex Douglas introduce myself. tell me your Deep Cove and Seymour Vice President Tom Kirk Treasurer/Secretary Louise Hart races, egg and spoon, sack races you fund-raiser outside the Cultural Centre Alex Douglas, local area stories when we meet. I do a lot of Director Marilyn Myers history meetings and tours on name it. She did the children’s art set Pat in motion to organize a Heritage resident for 42 Director Eileen Smith years, but I don’t Seymour which usually have a bit of competition for many years. Here we Garden, and with Mary Johnson, live in Deep Cove. I DCHS information as part of them. Projects Team are sloshing around in the rain, always another avid gardener, they set about live on top of This coming weekend April 8 and 9, I’ll Co-ordinator Amy Starkey rained in June! their planting and care of this space. So Office Mechtild Morin Mount Seymour. have a display in the cafeteria on many of you have supported this Office Liz Jenkins Bollmann Her spirit of sharing, and giving to Mount Seymour and encourage any important fund-raiser and we thank I’ve been on the Office Willa Bisanz others was so strong that it lead her to locals with historical items or stories sidelines of DCHS for many years and Schools Programs Lynda Noel becoming the most recognized full you. to drop by, there may be a now want to become much more Archival Project Hope Morris time volunteer in the Seymour area. Did you know that Pat was a trained complimentary area pass for you or Archival Project Vickie Boughen active. I look forward to working with For me it was her becoming the nurse, a painter, writer, poet, and of the Board, volunteers and Amy Starkey your grandchild available for you. Displays Wendy Bullen Stephenson wonderful supporter of the Deep Cove course, gardener? our new office coordinator. I know I’ve Alex Douglas by Janet Pavlik, Past President Trying to get it right! Heritage Society which is dear to my Her countless volunteer hours for us We try to verify all our inform- My personal memories of Pat go back heart. From its beginning in the 1970s were rewarded when then Mayor Don ation, but if you think we have Mount Seymour History Weekend over 45 years when John and I, Misha she was there by my side. She never Bell presented her with the Volunteer something wrong, please e-mail or missed a meeting and contributed so April 8 & 9, in the cafeteria, Mount Seymour call the office at 604-929-5744. and Paul moved to Deep Cove. We met of the Year Award. through our husbands at the Mount many ideas, stories, and fundraising www.mtseymourhistory.ca • email [email protected] • 604-355-0051 Thank you. Pat, we will miss you and thank you for Seymour Lions Club. We didn’t know ideas. Fundraising was a favourite with helping preserve our Heritage. anyone here and it was Pat and Ron her (yes she wore us out with so many flea markets), I turned it into a Boot Photo at left, Ron and Pat Morrice at Deep Cove Mount Seymour Cont’d who welcomed us to the area and to Heritage gathering 2004, DCHS #4626. become part of this special community. Sale, a favourite with Brits selling their Below, the Pat Morrice Deep Cove Heritage stuff from the boot of their cars, no Garden in 2008, DCHS #3179 one of the members of the Already Pat was involved with so many more hauling for poor Ron of all that Mountaineering party, when he groups and even though she had a stuff. Unfortunately because of space it noticed that a storm-torn stump near family of four kids of her own she didnt last more than a couple of years. the summit looked like a pump handle. offered to help me with Misha and Paul The group’s nicknames, “First Pump,” too. But as many of you know it was the “Second Pump,” and “Third Pump Organizing children’s events at the dream that we had of having a Heritage Peak” were informally adopted. Lions early community days was Garden for the Deep Cove Heritage Society that really fired Pat up. My idea As for the name of the mountain itself, always Pat’s department, she dragged of having commemorative bricks as a rather than referring, as one might me into assisting with the children’s think, to a view where one can “see more,” Mount Seymour was named after Frederick Seymour (1820-1869) plank road to the foot of the mountain from Scandinavia and other parts of who succeeded James Douglas as Top of Depencier, May 1937, Gang - Val, J. Cherry, Viv, Casey, Dick Shaigh, Tom Hunter, Hal, Maurice Bell. to carry Seymour’s logs to what is now Europe. These mountains produced DCHS #5023 — Courtesy Hazel Best second governor of the Colony of Gallant Avenue in Deep Cove. From some of the most accomplished British Columbia from 1864 to 1869, bridge across the Seymour River hadn’t Long before there was a road through there the logs were dragged down a skid jumpers in Canada. In 1941 Tommy before formation of the province of recently been washed out, and that the to (or up) Mount Seymour there was road into the ocean and then towed to Hunter designed and built Seymour’s British Columbia. original Second Narrows Bridge was logging activity on the mountain. In booming grounds and subsequently to first official ski jump on the site of the back in commission after frequent Mount Seymour was slower to develop the 1880s, the Hastings Mill Company nearby mills. While there is no further current Half Pipe which was popular disastrous boat/log boom/bridge than Grouse or Hollyburn because it logged the west side of the mountain logging on Seymour, the path opened with early snowboarding. collisions during its early years for cedar and fir. They dragged the was the most remote and least by Buck’s Old Logging Road that led In 1929, members of the “Alpine Club beginning from World War I. For felled trees into the Seymour River and accessible of the North Shore close to alpine areas has been of Canada” (formerly the BC several years during the Depression, then floated them to log booms in the Mountains. For instance, early skiers integrated into current hiking trails Mountaineering Club) explored the Second Narrows was closed when ocean where they were gathered. couldn’t take for granted, especially in (the Old Buck Trail).